The Alaska Reference Database originated as the standalone Alaska Fire Effects Reference Database, a ProCite reference database maintained by former BLM-Alaska Fire Service Fire Ecologist Randi Jandt. It was expanded under a Joint Fire Science Program grant for the FIREHouse project (The Northwest and Alaska Fire Research Clearinghouse). It is now maintained by the Alaska Fire Science Consortium and FRAMES, and is hosted through the FRAMES Resource Catalog. The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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O'Neil
An investigation of the radial growth of jack pine (Pinus banksiana Lamb.) defoliated by the Swaine jack-pine sawfly (Neodiprion swainei Midd.) disclosed that growth rings were discontinuous and missing in cross-sectional disks from severly damaged trees. In young and open-grown…
Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Taylor
From the text: 'Research has demonstrated that a high correlation exists between the moisture content of fine fuels and the moisture content of the ambient air. The mortarboard psychrometer was developed by the Southern Forest Fire Laboratory to provide a simple, accurate, yet…
Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Van Arsdel
From the text:'A description of a simple, low-cost, weather instrument shelter that has been used in epidemiological studies of the University of Wisconsin, the University of Florida (Everglades Experiment Station), and the Lake States Forest Experiment Station is presented here…
Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cayford
In the fall of 1955 a forest fire burned approximately 12,000 acres of merchantable and young growth jack pine on the Sandilands Forest Reserve in southeastern Manitoba. A fact-finding observational study was carried out between 1956 and 1961 to determine the amount and…
Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Martin
The physical properties of bark are virtually uninvestigated, and the resulting lack of knowledge has relegated bark to the role of residue. Significant among these properties are thermal characteristics, which are basic to the use of bark as thermal insulation. This paper…
Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hayes
This research ws conducted to determine how forest-fire behavior and its controlling variables differ between altitudes throughout the day on north and south slopes. Observations were made at eight stations, six of them paired on north and south aspects of 5,500-, 3,800-, and 2,…
Year: 1941
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Decker
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Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hirsch
Problems encountered in the field of ire detection and suppression are outlined. The experimental program for the evaluation of infrared scanning devices currently in progress at the Forest Fire Laboratory is discussed. Data accumulated to date on the nature of small fires and…
Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Black
The results of a 9-year rotational burning study on blueberry fields at the Experimental Project Farm, Alliston, Prince Edward Island, indicated that total fruit production was greater from burning every second year than from every third year. Both burning treatments produced…
Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Byram
It is assumed that the flow of moisture in forest fuels and other woody materials is determined by the gradient of a quantity g which is a function of some property, or properties, of the moisture content. There appears to be no preferred choice for this function, hence moisture…
Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Chandler, Storey, Tangren
Mass fires are likely to follow a nuclear attack. Since it is important to the civil defense program to be able to predict rate, duration, and extent of spread of such fires, the Office of Civil Defense, U.S. Department of Defense, issued a joint contract to the Forest Service…
Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Adams
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Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Galinat, Gunnerson
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Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Thomas
Uncontrolled fires produce flames where the initial momentum of the fuel is low compared with the momentum produced by buoyancy. The heights of such flames with wood as the fuel are examined and discussed in terms of both a dimensional analysis and the entrainment of air into…
Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Chandler, Storey, Tangren
Mass fires are likely to follow a nuclear attack. Since it is important to the civil defense program to be able to predict rate, duration, and extent of spread of such fires, the Office of Civil Defense, U.S. Department of Defense, issued a joint contract to the Forest Service…
Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Palmer
Description not entered.
Year: 1941
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stewart
In March 1963, anthropologist Omer Stewart delivered a paper at the second annual Tall Timbers Fire Ecology Conference in Tallahassee, Florida, about the ecological significance of the use of fire by aboriginal peoples around the world. This paper, published later that year in a…
Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
[from the forward] Next to crop prices, nothing is more important to the farmer's business than the weather, and in fact the weather often has a strong influence on prices. So every farmer takes a keen interest in the weather, and in many cases he is a weather prophet of no mean…
Year: 1941
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kayll
Cambium heated with a hot air flow survived 60 degrees C exposures up to 4 minutes, and 65 degrees C for less than 2 minutes. Tetrazolium chloride was shown to be a suitable viability test stain for several resinous and non-resinous species. Techniques and results are discussed.
Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Komarek
Description not entered.
Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wilton
Seed traps were arranged under a fire-killed 60 year Picea mariana stand immediately after the fire, and seed collections taken at intervals for 60 days. Much seed was released in the first 10 days, but less than half the natural seedfall occurred during the first 60 days.…
Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Description not entered.
Year: 1941
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Palmer
Notes (Do Not Cite): Paired transects for lichen cover were established on 15 burned/unburned and grazed/ungrazed ranges aged 3 to 41 years, in the Fairbanks, Circle, Delta vicinity. The author estimates that 75% of the lichen range in the 'Fairbanks section' has burned over…
Year: 1941
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hardy, Franks
The natural resources of Interior Alaska deserve a higher level of protection than is now feasible. This publication is written for both the person requiring specific data to do a better research or protection job and the person who wishes to become more thoroughly acquainted…
Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Chesemore
Objectives: 1) To determine the effects of various intensities of burning on populations of wild vertebrate animals, both qualitatively and quantitatively. 2) To study the vegetation composition in relation to the preceding objectives. 3) To determine the seral stages and rates…
Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES